Parkatêjê dialect

Parkatêjê
Parkatêjê
Pará Gavião
Native to	Brazil
Region	Pará
Ethnicity	Parkatêjê
Native speakers	12 (2020)
Language family	Macro-Jê Jê Cerrado Jê of Goyaz Northern Jê Timbira Pará Gavião Parkatêjê; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	timb1254

Parkatêjê, or Pará Gavião, is a Timbira variety of the Jê language family of Brazil. It is spoken by 12^[1]^: 10 individuals in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria (Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará). It is closely related to Kỳikatêjê, spoken by another Timbira group in the same reservation. Parkatêjê has been described and documented by Leopoldina Araújo^[2]^[3] and, more recently, by other researchers from the Federal University of Pará.

Phonology

Consonants of Parkatêjê^[4]
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labial–velar	Glottal
Plosive	p	t		k		ʔ
Nasal	m	n
Non-sibilant fricative						h
Approximant			j		w
Tap/flap		ɾ

Parkatêjê (and Kỳikatêjê) differ from all other Timbira varieties in lacking a contrast between /k/ and /kʰ/. Moreover, the glottal stop /ʔ/ in Parkatêjê may not occupy the coda position of a syllable, which Ribeiro-Silva (2020) attributes to loss of Proto-Timbira *ʔ in codas in Parkatêjê.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
^ Araújo, Leopoldina M. S. de (1989). Aspectos da língua gavião-jê (Ph.D. dissertation). Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
^ Araújo, Leopoldina (2016). Dicionário Parkatêjê–Português. Belém. ISBN 978-85-910871-0-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "PHOIBLE 2.0". phoible.org. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ Ribeiro-Silva, Nandra (2020). Reconstrução fonológica do Proto-Timbira (Ph.D. dissertation). Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará.

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[Nikulin-2020-1] Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.

[Araújo-1989-2] Araújo, Leopoldina M. S. de (1989). Aspectos da língua gavião-jê (Ph.D. dissertation). Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

[Araújo-2016-3] Araújo, Leopoldina (2016). Dicionário Parkatêjê–Português. Belém. ISBN 978-85-910871-0-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[4] "PHOIBLE 2.0". phoible.org. Retrieved 30 May 2022.

[Ribeiro-Silva-2020-5] Ribeiro-Silva, Nandra (2020). Reconstrução fonológica do Proto-Timbira (Ph.D. dissertation). Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará.

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